Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Awarded by Type Department Details
2016 Ahmed S. AL-Baiti '96 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2000 David S. Adams Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biology & Biotechnology

Read the citation: 2000 Academic Advising Award
2017 Aaron Pepin Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2003 Eleanor Loiacono Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty

Read the citation: 2003 Romeo Award
2008 Justin Carmichael Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

"DC Glow-Discharge Plasma Gun"

Advisor: Rafael Garcia
2016 Brian Meacham Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Fire Protection Engineering

Sweden, Spain, Japan 

Inaugural Fulbright Global Scholar
2020 Zachary Emil, Andrew Robbertz, Richard Valente, Cole Winsor Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Enhanced Alternative Communications Using AI and NLP
2020 Dominic Cascino, Paulo Chow Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

 Enhancing Virtual Reality Interactions with Modular Peripherals
2022 Lindsay Ambrosino Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 Kyumin Lee National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Computer Science
2023 Brianna Ankstitus, Martin Carrau, Malyssa Deranian, Heather McGlauflin, Cherylle Eliza Sabilla Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering

"Manufacturing Process Standardization at Affordable Interior Systems"
Advisor: Walter Towner

 
2016 Kelsey Ouellette CEE Advisory Board MQP Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute
L. R. Ram-Mohan American Physical Society Fellow American Physical Society Faculty
2010 Karen Tegan Padir '90 John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2019 Linda Looft Denise Nicoletti Trustees' Award for Service to Community Worcester Polytechnic Institute Staff

Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Recognized at Honors Convocation

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2015 Kevin Ackerman Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Michael Ferro ’10 John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2012 Thomas L Pajonas '77 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2012 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award, Thomas L Pajonas
1998 Leonard D. Albano Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

Read the citation: 1998 Outstanding Teaching Award
1998 Kent P. Ljungquist Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts

Read the citation: 1998 Outstanding Research Award
2009 Shreelekha Mandal Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

"Functional Specificity of Lipid Elongases in Development"

Advisor: Joseph Duffy
2016 Nicholas Cyganski Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2007 Colin DeGraf, Keeley Stevens Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

"Lateral Force Calibration for Probe Microscopy"

Advisor: Nancy Burnham
2008 Michael S. Gutman '58 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2017 Alison Paquin Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2021 Olivia Lattanzi Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

Putting the “Other” Center Stage: Examining Modern Language and Nuances of Representation within Theatre
2017 Myles Walton Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2017 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award, Myles Walton
2018 Cierra Ford Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2018 Sara Cardona Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2016 Amanda Adkins Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
Alyssa Fidanza, MS Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2010 Yi (Ed) Hua Ma William R. Grogan Award for Support of the Mission of WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2015 Melissa Dery Tau Beta Pi Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2020 Justin Amevor Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2004 Arthur M. Quitadamo '74 Albert H. Schwieger Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement (by a SIM graduate) WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2013 Dean L. Kamen '73 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2013 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award, Dean L. Kamen
1983 Hartley T. Grandin, Jr Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering
1986 Alexander E. Emanuel Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
2009 Christopher M. Drouin Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

"The Mindful Reader: Learning- Augmented News Aggregation"

Advisor: David C. Brown
2016 Hailey Cambra Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Transcriptional Evidence of the Role of the ROotstock in Different Artemisia annua Chemotypes"

Advisor: Pamela Weathers
2012 Nicholas Mondor Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Office of the Provost
2018 Kayleah Griffin Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2022 Michael Berwanger Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

“Photoredox Catalyzed C-H Acetoxylation Through Formal Hydride Abstraction”

Advisors: Stephen Kmiotek, Patricia Musacchio
2018 Steven P. Vassallo '93 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the Citation: 2018 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award, Steven P. Vassallo
2024 Rose Bohrer Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Computer Science
2016 Elizabeth Thompson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

"What's Bugging Me About Literary Translation: Translating German to English"

Advisor: Ulrike Brisson
2009 Windle B. Priem '59 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2015 Daniele Mucaro Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2018 Tristan Cano Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Copper Homeostasis is Important for Pathogenesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Caenorhabditis elegans."

Advisor:  José Argüello
2013 Robert L. Diamond '56 Innovator of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni